Bodge vs Null - What's the difference?
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(British) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; patch up; repair, mend
* All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all. — (A book of characters, selected from the writings of Overbury, Earle, and Butler, Thomas Overbury and John Earle, 1865)
* Some cars were neglected, others bodged to keep them running with inevitable consequences — (Original Porsche 356: The Restorer's Guide, Laurence Meredith, 2003)
* Do not be satisfied with a bodged job, set yourself professional goals and standards — (The Restauration Handbook, Enric Roselló, 2007)
To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
*1978 , John Geraint Jenkins, Traditional Country Craftsmen , page 16, ISBN 0710087268.
*:His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades.
*1989 , John Birchard, "The artful bodger", American Woodworker , page 41, May-June.
*:"Bodging is more a curiosity than a valid craft these days," says Don. "But experience in low-tech woodworking is also a good way for the beginner to start getting a feel for turning without having to make a huge investment in a modern lathe."
*2000 , Beth Robinson Bosk, The New Settler Interviews: Boogie at the Brink , ISBN 189013239X.
*:Which is no different than my chair bodging , in that I can go out into the woodland and do my work without having to be tied in to a village shop situation.
A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair
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(historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
(South East England) A four wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also a home made go-cart.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As a proper noun bodge
is a nickname for the country of.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bodge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(bodg)Noun
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Derived terms
* bodge jobEtymology 2
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(en noun)null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.